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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aikot, A.; Amos, K.R.; Bouchhar, N.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cantero, J.; Carrion Martinez, C.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Chitishvili, M.; Costa, M.J.; Curcio, F.; Didenko, M.; Escobar, C.; Fiorini, L.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Hofer, J.; Jimenez Ortega, M.; Lacasta, C.; Lanzac Berrocal, M.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Melini, D.; Mitsou, V.A.; Monsonis Romero, L.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Munoz Perez, D.; Navarro-Gonzalez J.; Poveda, J.; Rubio Jimenez, A.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Saibel, A.; Salt, J.; Sanchez Sebastian, V.; Senthilkumar, V.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Taylor Vara, R.J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valiente Moreno, E.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Varriale, L.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vincent, M.; Vos, M.; Wandall-Christensen, K.; Zakareishvili, T. |
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Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt signatures in the ATLAS detector |
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2026 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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153 |
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The existence of right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale could help address the origins of neutrino masses, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter. In this paper, leptonic decays of W bosons from 140 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC, reconstructed in the ATLAS experiment, are used to search for heavy neutral leptons produced through their mixing with muon or electron neutrinos in a scenario with lepton number violation. The search is conducted using prompt leptonic decay signatures. The considered final states require two same-charge leptons or three leptons, while vetoing three-lepton same-flavour topologies. No significant excess over the expected Standard Model backgrounds is found, leading to constraints on the heavy neutral lepton's mixing with muon and electron neutrinos for heavy-neutral-lepton masses. The analysis excludes vertical bar U-e vertical bar(2) values above 8x10(-5) and vertical bar U-mu vertical bar(2) values above 5.0x10(-5) in the full mass range of 8-65 GeV. The strongest constraints are placed on heavy-neutral-lepton masses in the range 15-30 GeV of vertical bar U-e vertical bar(2) < 1.1 x 10(-5) and vertical bar U-mu vertical bar(2) < 5 x 10(-6). |
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